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Is foe a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word foe is a Scrabble US word. The word foe is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is foe a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word foe is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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Yes. The word foe is a Words With Friends word. The word foe is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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3-letter words (1 found)

FOE,

2-letter words (4 found)

EF,FE,OE,OF,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from foe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of foe

foe ofe feo efo oef eof

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Definitions and meaning of foe

foe

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /foʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • Homophones: faux, pho

Etymology 1

From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pìktas (“evil”)).

Adjective

foe

  1. (obsolete) Hostile.
    • , vol.1, ch.23:
      he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].
Translations

Noun

foe (plural foes)

  1. An enemy.
Synonyms
  • (enemy): adversary, enemy, opponent, fiend.
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "enemy"): ally, friend
Derived terms
  • befoe
  • identification friend or foe
Translations

Etymology 2

Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 1051 ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.

Noun

foe (plural foes)

  1. A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules.
Synonyms
  • bethe (B)

Anagrams

  • EFO, EOF, OEF

Cameroon Pidgin

Preposition

foe

  1. Alternative spelling of for

Choctaw

Etymology

From English bee.

Noun

foe

  1. bee

Middle English

Noun

foe

  1. Alternative form of fo

Portuguese

Verb

foe

  1. Obsolete spelling of foi

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